Why would you think that? I got a lot of the same concern when I shaved my head, and I didn’t understand where it was coming from. Is this a thing? When women cut off their hair they go insane, or vice versa?

“You need to lose 10lbs off your butt” - THE LAST WORDS MY GRANDMOTHER SAID TO ME BEFORE SHE HAD A STROKE AND BECAME NONVERBAL AND DIED.

Honestly, people gravitate towards ‘cute’ much more than ‘beautiful’. To be too pretty is off putting to many people.

And Dartmouth.

My mom has some serious snark in her game. She also feels that it’s her motherly obligation to take me to the airport every week (I travel for work) despite the fact that the company would pay for a cab or for me to leave my car at the airport.

The Ivy League is 8 specific schools. It’s not subjective. They are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.

Sometimes I want real Mexican, sometimes I want Chipotle. I don’t pretend there’s any crossover between the two.

it’s not as common, but it’s certainly not ‘virtually never.’

Perhaps the point was not well written.

I’ve been assaulted twice in one month this year, on the street, by total strangers, in front of my apartment building, so go fuck yourself.

Sadly, I know quite a few women raped by strangers. Glad you feel safe, though!

If you are being assaulted, you aren’t going to have time to dig around in your purse and MacGyver something. You aren’t going to have time to open that Swiss army knife and get a blade out. If you carry something for self-defense, it needs to be something you can use in under a second. You would be far better off…

Did I miss the part where they said the alarm only works if the attacker is unknown?

From personal experience, pretending to be on the phone and screaming did nothing. Shit, we’re taught to scream “fire” when being assaulted because no one responds to “rape.”

There are al sorts of ways to be assaulted that stop short of rape. Being followed and harassed is incredibly common.

Yes, that is the problem. We, women, are attacked primarily by those whom we know. But instead of saying “feminists are convinced that everyone is raping all the time,” maybe take a minute and think about what it’s like for most of the raping to be done by people you know. It means you never feel safe.

Honestly, women are less likely to walk the public spaces, specially at night, so if it helps putting more women out here and feel safe, I’m in favour of it. No bad side effects, and plenty of good side effects.

Fuck off

I’m sorry, but rape is a real thing and minimizing the feelings of insecurity a lot of women have is not ok. Women should be able to feel secure in the public space.

I think they mean intimidating for the user. Making sure your pepper spray is pointed in the right direction, remembering how to use your stun gun you hopefully haven’t used before, etc. as you’re being assaulted.